Defining Alarm Areas

Overview of Alarm Areas

One of your first tasks when configuring alarms is to create alarm areas by naming them. iFIX provides 16 default alarm areas, named A through P; however, you can rename the default areas or add new ones. Each alarm area name you enter must be unique and can be up to 29 alphanumeric characters.

In order to enter or edit an alarm area name, iFIX must be running. In addition, you can only edit the alarm area database from a SCADA server.

Alarm area names cannot contain the characters "*", "?", or "\".

Access Alarm Areas

To access Alarm Areas:

1. From the Navigation panel, select your node, iFIX project, and then Alarms.
2. Click Areas. The Alarm Areas settings appear as shown in the following figure.

To add an Alarm Area, click the plus (+) icon to access the Common Alarm Areas Configuration dialog box.

Alarm Area Details

For each of the alarm areas you can configure what is enabled for:

• Alarm Services
• Alarm Printers
• Alarm Events